Art Appreciation Chapters 22-24 - Art Movements

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The term New York School refers to a postwar art movement that
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was a convenient way to lump together the Abstract Expressionists
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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is an example of
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land art
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The term postmodern was first used in reference to a certain style in
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architecture
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The Women series of paintings by Willem de Kooning caused a stir in the art world. They were
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seen as shocking and brutal
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The Guerrilla Girls use posters and on-site appearances to
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bring attention to gender inequalities in the art world
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Painting is the primary medium used by all of the following artists EXCEPT: Frankenthaler, Neel, Rothko, Pollock, Bourgeois
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Bourgeois
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Jasper Johns chose familiar images for his subject matter so that he could then concentrate on
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paradoxes, endless multiples, representation, NOT the psychological use of color
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One of the ideas behind Postmodernism is pluralism, which proposes that art
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can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid
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The term action painting refers to the fact that this new type of painting
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traced the actions of the painter
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Minimalism, a trend that coexisted with Pop, emphasized a continuation of the exploration of nonrepresentation and the idea that a painting or sculpture is primarily
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a physical object
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Photorealism refers to
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a movement in painting that explores the way a camera "sees"
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Early Conceptualists reacted to the burgeoning art market by
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attempting to eliminate the art object
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Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
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began as a graffiti artist
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In Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs, the viewer is presented with
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three ways of documenting an idea
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Anselm Kiefer was one of the most prominent Neo-Expressionists. His work
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dealt directly with the trauma of Germany's past
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A Neo-Dada artist who made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form "combine paintings" is
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Robert Rauschenburg
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Allan Kaprow took art in a new direction with "happenings." His primary claim was
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the art was most like life itself
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Appropriation contends that the meaning of a work of art
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is unstable and communal
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A new art form known as "installation"
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creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience
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The artistic recycling of existing images is an aspect of which movement?
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Postmodernism
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What type of material did Subodh Gupta use in making the work Very Hungry God?
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steel pots and buckets
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Knowledge of what would have enriched the experience to those who visited Gupta's Very Hungry God?
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Hindu rituals and beliefs
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What permitted Emily Jacir the freedom to produce her project Where We Come From?
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her American passport
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Takashi Murakami is inspired by otaku, which is a Japanese term that refers to
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people with all-consuming interests
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In Gabriel Orozco's Horses Running Endlessly,
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the game is what the viewer makes of it
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Which interiors would artist Ernesto Neto most like to create a work for?
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a cave
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Ernesto Neto's Leviathan Thot was a temporary installation at the
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Pantheon in Paris
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Which place had a profound effect on the work of Olafur Eliasson?
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Iceland
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Two things that influence the art of Olafur Eliasson are
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nature and color
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The work 360-Degree Room for All Colors was done by
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Olafur Eliasson
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Evoking a Hindu ritual, Subodh Gupta did what outside the church that housed his Very Hungry God?
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served soup
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Refrigerator magnets depicting Michelangelo's David and Botticelli's Venus as jewerly are an example of
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visual culture
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In Neto's Leviathan Thot, the artist thinks of his work as a ________, another art of gravity, grace, balance, and interaction.
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dance
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Horses Running Endlessly is by the ________ artist, ________.
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Mexican; Orozco
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One of the names most closely associated with Performance art is ________, who is known for the multimedia work Stories from the Nerve Bible.
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Laurie Anderson
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Roy Lichtenstein often based his imagery on the
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comic books